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ANNUAL 



REGISTER, 1805. 



company the fortress of Deeg, and 

 has restored all the districts which 

 •were conferred upon him by the 

 British government after the conclu- 

 sion of peace with Dowlut Rao 

 Scindia. Runjeet Sing has also en- 

 gaged to pay the sum of twenty 

 lacks of rupees to tiie company ; of 

 this sum, three lacks of rupees are 

 to be paid immediately, and the re- 

 mainder by instalments, at stated 

 periods. The son of Runjeet Sing 

 "was delivered up to lord Lake on 

 the 12th of April, as an hostage for 

 the due performance of these engage- 

 ments. Lieutenant-colonel Holmes, 

 of the Bombay establishment, with a 

 yaluable convoy of provisions and 

 stores from Guzzcrat, and treasure 

 to a large amount, for the use of the 

 Bombay army under major-general 

 Jones, marched into camp before 

 Bhurtpore on the lOth of April. — 

 Colonel Holmes had marched from 

 Guzzerat to Bhurtpore, without 

 liaving met any material interrup- 

 tion ; and since he passed Kotah he 

 had not seen any enemy. It ap- 

 pears by the most authentic ac- 

 counts, that Jcswunt Rao Ilolkar 

 is reduced to the greatest distress, 

 ^nd that his force is nearly destroy- 

 ed. TIic troops which remain in his 

 service are not more clian sufficient 

 to form a guard for the protection 

 of his person, and even these are en- 

 tirely dispirited, and harrassed by 

 the several defeats they have recent- 

 ly experienced, and by the conti- 

 nual state of alarm in which they 

 have been kept by the persevering 

 qctivity and vigilance of the com- 

 mander in chief. The dominions of 

 the company in Ilindostan are in a 

 state of tranquillity ; and the bands 

 of robbers which had disturbed cer- 

 tain districts in the north-western 

 provinces have been expelled. 



By command of his excellency tha 

 most noble the governor-general in 

 council, 



J. Lumsden, ch. sec. to the Gov. 



Scindiah, with his army, attended 

 by the British resident, remained at 

 Subbulgurgh on theOthinst. (April.) 

 On the 7th inst. Scindiah had dis- 

 patched his prime minister to Bhurt- 

 pore, to act in concert with his ex- 

 cellency lord Lake, in the restora- 

 tion of a general peace in India. 

 F. Warden, sec. 



Interesting Account of the Lots of 

 his Mfijcsn/s Sloop Arroic, and 

 Acheron Bomb, in a Letter from 

 Captain Farquhur, to W. Mars- 

 den, Esq. dated in Malaga Prison y 

 February 3. 



Proceedings of Ms Majesty's Bomb 

 Vessel Acheron^ Sunday/, Feb. 3. 

 Sir, 



At day-light two strange sail were 

 seen from the mast-head, bearing 

 about E. S. E. of us ; at eight A. M. 

 they had considerably ncared us ; 

 we were at this time in the rear of 

 the convoy. About half past 10, 

 the Arrow asked, per telegraph, my 

 opinion of ships to lite eastward; 

 1 immediately wore ship and stood 

 towards them ; observed the head- 

 most ship to shorten sail, by hauling 

 down the studding sails ; made sig- 

 nal 642 to the Arrow, then hoisted 

 the private signal, and continued 

 upon a wind standing to them ; at 

 quarter past eleven made the signal, 

 for their being suspicious (they not 

 having answered the private signal). 

 I was now so near as to be able to 

 observe they were frigates, and at 

 half-past eleven to discover that they 

 had their spare anchors in their 

 main chains, which immediately led 

 me to. supposs that thc}^ were, 



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